Crossword-Solution: AMBUSH 6 letters, 87 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Ambush v. t. A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an
enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a
device to entrap; a snare.
Ambush v. t. A concealed station, where troops or enemies lie in wait
to attack by surprise.
Ambush v. t. The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by
surprise; liers in wait.
Ambush v. t. To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy.
Ambush v. t. To attack by ambush; to waylay.
Ambush v. i. To lie in wait, for the purpose of attacking by
surprise; to lurk.

We have 87 clues for the answer “AMBUSH”

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Event at the pass 1 answer
Snipers spot 1 answer
Sniper's vantage point. 1 answer
Snare laid for an enemy. 1 answer
Plot feature in many a Western 1 answer
Military surprise 1 answer
Lurker's plan, perhaps 1 answer
Lurker's plan 1 answer
Lurker's objective 1 answer
Hidden attack position 1 answer
Guerrilla warfare technique 1 answer
Attack from a concealed position 1 answer
Attack like a sniper 1 answer
Bit of oater action 1 answer
Blindside, say 1 answer
Concealment for an attack 1 answer
Concealed position 1 answer
Certain surprise party? 1 answer
Come out from lying in wait 1 answer
Surprise attack from a hidden position 1 answer
manipulated surprise attack 1 answer
manipulated suprise attack 1 answer
act of waiting in a concealed position to make a surprise attack 1 answer
What Cato often prepares for Clouseau 1 answer
the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise 1 answer
SHOOT from cover 2 answers
Unexpected attack 2 answers
Western plot element 2 answers
wait in hiding to attack 2 answers
Attack from concealment 2 answers
Lie in wait for 2 answers
Surprise attack 3 answers
Attack from hiding 3 answers
lay for 3 answers
Attack by surprise 3 answers
Trap of a sort 3 answers
Oater action 3 answers
bushwhack 4 answers
General Plan 4 answers
lie in wait 4 answers
Military tactic 4 answers
snipe 5 answers
MAKE attack 5 answers
Sneak attack 5 answers
TAKE by surprise 5 answers
booby-trap 6 answers
Booby Trap 6 answers
CONCEALED BY 10 answers
Waylay 10 answers
A SNEAK ATTACK 10 answers
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with AMBUSH (5)

Fiercely the red sun descending Burned his way along the heavens, Set the sky on fire behind him, As war-parties, when retreating, Burn the prairies on their war-trail; And the moon, the Night-sun, eastward, Suddenly starting from his ambush, Followed fast those bloody footprints, Followed in that fiery war-trail, With its glare upon his features.
The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991
The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.
The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992
Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests.
The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 1993
The green men were expecting an exodus of a body of red troops from the nearest city gate, and they were lying there in ambush to leap upon them.
The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Lieutenant Charpentier, who had been bringing up the rear of the column, now came running to the scene, and on hearing the details of the ambush ordered the men to follow him, and plunged into the tangled vegetation.
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with AMBUSH (3)

Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.
Andrew Davidson The Gargoyle
... Bin Laden's quotes from the Quaran resonated in my brain: "When you meet the unbelievers, strike them in the neck." "If you do not go out and fight, God will punish you severely and put others in your place." "Wherever you find the polytheists, kill them, seize them, besiege them, ambush them." "You who believe, do not take the Jews and Christians as friends; they are allies only to each other. Anyone who takes them as an ally becomes one of them.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Infidel
In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you have forced your way through the shop past the thick barricade of Books You Haven't Read, which were frowning at you from the tables and shelves, trying to cow you. But you know you must never allow yourself to be awed, that among them there extend for acres and acres the Books You Needn't Read, the Books Made For Purposes Other Than Reading, Books R…
Italo Calvino If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 67 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).